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The Watering Hole: June 22 — Mendacious Mitt

All cartoons are posted with the artists’ express permission to TPZoo.
Paul Jamiol, Jamiol’s World

I think our Paul has nailed Mitt Romney’s award wall, don’t you?

My inspiration for the title of this post came from this article in The Guardian, “Mendacious Mitt: Romney’s bid to become liar-in-chief.” Mitt Romney may be the biggest liar I’ve ever seen; he can firmly hold two completely contradictory positions within one speech or interview. If he’s ever called out — which is unbelievably rare — he simply tells another lie, confidently claiming he never said what he clearly did say.

I thought it was shameful when John McCain jettisoned his remaining integrity while running for president in 2008, but WOW, Mitt Romney makes McCain look like George Washington by comparison.

It seems to me that the American people are already onto Mitt’s mendacity, and are fucking sick of it, but will it hold? Tell a lie often enough, and it becomes truth, right? Yeah, I’m worried…

Its pretty clear that Rmoney has been given a hall pass by his fellow Cultists.

I was in a tavern in a very wealthy area on Weds the other evening and overheard some blowhard talking to his two friends (and presumably lecturing his Stepford Wife) about how “Obama never gets any negative press coverage and I challenge you to find one negative report, whereas Romney almost never has positive press. By the time his friends had stopped actively listening to him (which struck me as a hint) I had banged ‘media favor romney obama’ into my smart phone and within 10 seconds was staring at the proof that our loud barroom idiot was full of shit.

Given the facts of this article and that Mitt has figured out that the media will simply not cal him out and so the public remains ignorant of the lies he tells every day (as ignorant as presumably a wealthy man in a wealthy neighborhood tavern in a west coast city can be) …. it is entirely possible that this mendacious sock puppet for American fascism can find his way into the White House…

Like Dick Cheney, like Mitt Romney, I, too, was willing to crawl across forty miles of broken glass on my hands and knees to avoid “serving” in the military, to avoid Vietnam. Unlike Cheney or Romney, however, my disdain for military adventurism and stupidity was honest and remains to this day as strong as ever. I detest war, I detest war mongering, I detest people who advocate either. I detest both Cheney and Romney on their military positions — but not because each sought (successfully) to avoid “service.” The only tricky aspect is to decide which of each of their two faces are, today, most detestable. Conclusion: all of them.

Bob Cummins, who has donated more than $3.5 million to Minnesota Republican causes, is telling allies he has had it with Republicans in the Minnesota Legislature and will not give their campaigns any cash this year, according to multiple sources.
Cummins, CEO of Plymouth-based Primera Technology, is reportedly frustrated over legislators’ failure to approve a “right-to-work” constitutional amendment that would limit union power. At least 21 states have such restrictions.

Following much work in court by the Center for Biological Diversity, the western snowy plover — a 6-inch-long, buff- and sea-spray-colored shorebird — is at last enjoying 24,000 protected acres of habitat on the Pacific coast. After a 1999 Center lawsuit won the little bird almost 20,000 acres of “critical habitat,” a politically weighted Bush-era decision reduced those protections to just 12,000 acres — eliminating San Francisco Bay-area habitat deemed necessary for its survival by scientists. Now, after a 2008 Center suit, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has restored the lost habitat — and then some.

In fact, the western snowy plover is an Endangered Species Act success: Since earning federal protections in 1993 — when only 1,500 survived in the wild — the plover has rebounded to more than 3,600. But it still faces many threats, from development to pesticides to human disturbance; the nests of this shy, 2-ounce bird are easily overturned by human beach traffic or unleashed dogs. And climate change threatens its entire beach home with sea-level rise.

Ugh, horrible man. That is not “prank” behavior, it’s aggression and humiliation.

My former father in law thought it would be funny to pick up my eldest at about age 5, and dip his head into the toilet. I heard my son screaming — while his father and grandfather were laughing — and made it to the bathroom before the actual dunking. I was so enraged at such disgusting behavior that I told my in-laws to leave immediately, all while my son was still screaming, his baby brother was screaming, my ex was raging at me, and my mother-in-law (a very nice lady) was trying to calm everyone down. Fuck that shit, they had to leave.

Of course, in the end, I was “far too sensitive,” and was “spoiling those boys,” and “couldn’t take a joke.” Yeah, whatever.

“A radical new injustice — tiny horses helping disabled people — is sweeping the nation thanks to the Obama administration, but the forces of evil may have finally met their match in Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT)…”

I’m surprised it’s taken repiggies so long to start going after the ADA. They think they can pick on disabled people, probably because the disabled are a pretty low power and influence group, but they fail to remember that the elderly also benefit from the ADA, and that group is a fucking powerhouse.

Cheffetz should work in a restaurant kitchen sometime and then he discuss the horse with more authority. Another good place for Cheffetz to work would be a slaughter house. It will provide him with the knowledge that he needs to be an expert in sanitary practices.

We had a similar event when I was on the Grand Jury. This moron (who had a car filled with swag from burglarizing a cop’s house, including several firearms) allowed a cop to search him, after specifically answering “no” to the question of whether he had any weapons. Same result: a through-and-through in the upper thigh, just missing his tackle.

Tomorrow legendary football manager Bill Shankly’s maxim about football comes true for the Greeks.

“”Some people believe that football is a matter of life and death. I am very disappointed with that attitude, it is much, much more important than that!”

Greece plays Germany in the quarter finals of Euro 2012. Read about the backdrop to the game here. Germany is playing by far the better football of the two teams and should win handily – but the Greeks are fired up about the game with everything that is and has gone on between the two countries….

I was not in the least suprised. My pal Marisa kept me plied with Snoqualmie IPA and black beean chili, while I watched the classy German side dispatch Greece. Saved the Spain France game for when I got back from camping this weekend

Many reaction videos pop up. One links to a “pastebin link with information on these punks”, which has links to the school, the monitor, pictures of the alleged bullies, facebook pages, email addresses – holy shazbot!

Speaking of vile freaks; “Creepy” Crowley is at it again too. I think I’ll start the weekend early with an ice cold pilsener. Thankfully, it sounds like I’m going to be spending the weekend with smart, sane, people. I might even get out in the country to soar with the birds.

Dick Cheney is celebrating the marriage of his daughter Mary to her longtime partner, Heather Poe.

In a statement to the right-leaning website The Daily Caller, Cheney and his wife, Lynne, said, “Mary and Heather have been in a committed relationship for many years, and we are delighted that they were able to take advantage of the opportunity to have that relationship recognized.”

Mary Cheney and Poe were married today in Washington, they said. Mary Cheney has given birth to a son and a daughter.

Wells Fargo says it can manage the risk and sees no reason to stop expanding.It is hiring thousands of loan processors, underwriters, and call center employees, and investing billions of dollars in new loans and tens of millions in the infrastructure to manage them.”There’s no ceiling,” said Mike Heid, president of Wells Fargo Home Mortgage. “There’s no cap on our size.”

It seems to me that the American people are already onto Mitt’s mendacity, and are fucking sick of it, but will it hold? Tell a lie often enough, and it becomes truth, right? Yeah, I’m worried…

Me, too. A little. The thing is, what used to be the “Right Wing” has been taken over by the extremists. And for the extremists, and this is where it gets hard for our side, the Truth makes absolutely no difference to them. Their conclusions are not derived from jointly agreed premises, but from the groundless axioms of their philosophy. Reality means nothing to them. Nothing. The Extremists are getting worked up to fight an enemy that doesn’t exist in our Reality.

I realize that it’s not the whole problem with all of them but the one fact they can’t ignore, a black guy in the White House, has driven them quite mad. It’s almost like a severe anxiety disorder. Their systems are flooded with adrenaline from morn to midnight and logic has no pace in their world.